The state’s environmental agency has the authority to investigate and issue fines for illegal spills, but lacks sufficient ...

On the morning of Jan. 10, when the federal government said it would stop prioritizing how many lives are saved by cutting ...

The EPA will no longer apply a dollar amount to health benefits from clean air.

Pharmaceuticals used in health care provide huge health and economic benefits to society, but are now found extensively as ...

The change means the EPA will focus rules for two pollutants only on the cost to industry, part of a realignment under ...

The EPA won't consider the economic costs of harms to human health, at least for now. Legal and health experts are concerned ...

Experts fear consequences will include health complications, stalled industry, a society further disconnected from science and faster climate impacts.

“A forest is a pristine environment, but if you’re using cleaning and aromatherapy products full of chemically manufactured scents to recreate a forest in your home, you’re actually creating a ...

Duarte Pita Dias is based in CBS News' London bureau, where he works across digital platforms and for TV broadcasts. Senior Coordinating Producer of Climate and Environmental Coverage Tracy J. Wholf ...

Documents and data shared with BBC News from inside England's much criticised environment watchdog show an agency struggling to monitor incidents of serious pollution. The information shows the ...

I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early 2000s. The city sits on the plain, skyscrapers rising and buildings extending ...

A new water quality report card for Biscayne Bay again delivers sobering news: pollution in the bay continues to worsen. While the amount and location of the increase is not alarming, it does signal ...